#iwill pledges

174 Trust

• Promote a wide range of volunteering opportunities which meet the needs of the Trust, the users of its services and the young volunteers themselves.
• Ensure that young volunteers recognise and understand the impact that they have on the lives of others and in their own skills and values.
• Give young people the opportunity to be creative, inspirational and the confidence to lead in order to make a positive difference on the lives of others and on themselves.

ACEVO

• Utilise our communication channels to ACEVO membership and encourage members to support the campaign.
• Promote the role young people can play in addressing challenges the voluntary sector are facing.
• Use our profile where appropriate to ensure Government meets its commitment to volunteering and to the #iwill campaign.
• Increase awareness of the value of young people in governance roles to help grow the number of people on Trustee boards as part of the wider diversity agenda.
• Support the work to embed youth social action through Health & Social Care settings.

Action Cancer NI

• Promote a wide range of volunteering opportunities which meet the needs of the young people throughout Northern Ireland.
• Encourage young people, aged 15+  years to undertake social action in order to support our vision.
• Support young volunteers to recognise and understand the impact that they have on the lives of others and in their own skills and values.
• Give young people the opportunity to be recognised for their sustained commitment through the Millennium Volunteers programme.

Addiction NI

To promote community volunteering opportunities and social action through awareness programmes in Northern Ireland. Our aim is to harness the potential of young volunteers to raise awareness of alcohol/drug misuse amongst their peers in local communities.  Thereby encouraging young people to make informed choices about alcohol and drug use with regards their general health & well being.

Ambition

• Ambition will use this learning to increase the numbers of our members delivering local social action projects and measure on an annual basis.
• 600 young people will learn new skills and improve their communities through Ambition’s Action Up programme, delivering 70 social action projects by March 2015.

Ambitious about Autism

• To be guided and led by our Youth Council in shaping every aspect of our work in the organisation and wider campaigns which they feel to be a priority.
• Engage with wider groups of young people with autism and to ensure their voices can be heard, like we have achieved with the myVoice project.
• Embed participation as a core feature of the work we do as a charity and always have young people part of everything we do.

Apps for Good

• Working with schools across the UK we will encourage students to use technology to change their world for good through the Apps for Good course by building technology products that help solve problems in their communities

• Increase the number of centres delivering the Apps for Good course from 500 to 2200 by 2020

• Give former Apps for Good students the opportunity to continue to develop their problem-solving technology products and help grow the Apps for Good movement through our Fellowship programme

Army Cadet Force Association (ACF)

We will embed social action as a habit for life in our cadets and volunteers through promoting the ACF value of selfless commitment. We will do this through:

• Cadets and young adults already have a range of opportunities for social action through their APC training, DofE and CVQO awards – but we will look for ways to encourage more young people to take up and complete our low-cost DofE programme and to work towards CVQO awards.
• We are working hard to recruit more adult instructors so we can deliver more opportunities for cadets to join the ACF.
• We are revamping the Army Cadets “Cadet and the Community” programme, which encourages cadets to take part in, shape or lead community projects  – more information on this will be available soon.
• We are introducing an annual Community Week to raise the profile of the work we do in the community, to celebrate our achievements, and to give adults and cadets great ideas for new community projects. (For examples of the great work our cadets are already doing visit the Community Week webpage.)
• We are encouraging our cadets to make personal #iwill pledges using our social media channels.

Authority North York Moors National Park

We pledge to:

• Connect children, young people and adults with nature by using experience in the National Park
• Enhance children, young people and adult’s involvement in the interpretation of the historic environment and natural beauty in the National Park
• Share and showcase the positive work of children, young people and adults in the National Park
• Develop opportunities for The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award and the John Muir Award

Aylesbury Youth Action

• We will continue to embrace the 6 principles of quality social action across all our work.
• We will ensure that our opportunities are open and accessible to all young people, no matter their background or ability, meeting additional needs and overcoming barriers to volunteering.
• We will promote both young people as a positive resource within the community and the double benefit of youth social action.
• We will strive to reach more young people through our work year on year to 2020 and beyond.

Baden-Powell Scouts Association

• The Baden-Powell Scouts’ Association pledges to continue to promote the values of Traditional Scouting within the UK and overseas, and to continuously grow its membership to 2020 and beyond.
• We live by our Scout Laws, and Scout Law 3 states that “A Scouts’ duty is to be useful and help others” All youth members of the Association are also encouraged to undertake valuable social action through their progressive award scheme, through Citizenship badges, and eventually through participation in the Duke of Edinburgh Award scheme

Barnardo’s

• At Barnardo’s we are striving to reach our 2020 goal of increasing the number of young volunteers we recruit by 40%, and we’re making excellent progress! 50% of the volunteers we recruited in the last three months are under the age of 25.
• We are also advertising our volunteering opportunities on social media, search #Barnardos to hear more. We won’t stop until we reach our goal!

Belfast Hills Partnership

The Belfast Hills Partnership (BHP) is an independent charity which seeks to improve how the Hills are managed. We will do this by working with our partners including local councils, government departments, community groups, nature conservation organisations and businesses committed to caring for the Belfast Hills and their people. Belfast Hills Partnership will:

• Include young people as volunteers in a safe and stimulating environment so that they learn the value of protecting their environment, social action and active citizenship
• Encourage social action through the youth led element of our programmes
• Recognise young volunteers through the Millennium Volunteers programme and other initiatives.

Boys’ Brigade

• Boys’ Brigade will pledge to increase our reach by providing an additional 5000 places by 2020.  We will aim to do this across the UK, and will insure that our expansion is fully inclusive to new communities, ensuring all young people have the opportunity to take part.
• Boys’ Brigade will increase the role and profile of social action within the programme, and include the 6 quality principles within that work, particularly that young people take the lead.
• Boys’ Brigade will explore how older members can support those in the younger groups to take part in social action and build this into the programme.
• Boys’ Brigade will work with partners across Youth United to support the #iwill campaign and embed social action across our work as a network.

Boys’ Brigade Scotland

• We pledge to deliver 2,000 volunteering opportunities by 2020.

British Exploring Society

• Encourage all its young explorers to actively participate in social action projects through its Explorer Miles programme. Explorers will be able to reduce the cost of their expeditions by contributing to social action in their local area and gain accreditation through the VInspired platform. British Exploring hopes to encourage over 200 young people every year to engage in over 50 hours of social action per person. We aim to grow this figure by 50 explorers a year.
• Actively promote Social Action as a method of making its expeditions more accessible to all young people aged 18-25. Through the Explorer Miles programme we hope to engage with more explorers than ever before and encourage them to fund all or part of their expedition through social action.
• Raise the profile of social action and the #iwill campaign, including when on speaking platforms and through social media.
• Where young explorers make an exceptional contribution through social action, we will nominate them as #iwill ambassadors to shine a light on their fantastic contributions.

British Youth Council

• The British Youth Council pledge to support the #iwill campaign by championing its Youth-led principle, which we particularly welcome, and by sharing advice, experience and expertise around youth participation from its Youth Voice initiative, in the governance, design and development of the campaign.
• We will offer to ensure it is meaningfully youth-led, is credible and not tokenistic, and stand ready to introduce experienced, diverse and representative young people from bodies such as the UK Youth Parliament, Local Youth Council Network, and Young Mayors Network, to the campaign’s Youth Board, or to assist in the recruitment of young people to sit on its decision making bodies, or as young ambassadors.
• We will also offer ways to consult and research the views of young people to gauge their reaction to the campaign.

Canal and River Trust

• The Canal & River Trust pledges to inspire and support young people to take social action in communities who benefit from and use our national network of living waterways.
• Work with partners and funders over the next three years to inspire over 2000 young people to take positive action to transform places and enrich lives.
• Establish a youth engagement board to give young people a voice at the highest levels of the Trust.

Cara-Friend LGBT Switchboard NI

• Cara-Friend LGBT Switchboard NI is committed to providing continued support through our helpline service to the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender communities of Northern Ireland to encourage positive mental health.  Our service aims to reduce isolation, improve mental health and promote positive acceptance of the service user’s sexual orientation and/or gender, to encourage more involvement within their communities and to make more informed choice with regards to their health and wellbeing.  We will support our young members to develop social action initiatives that will meet our goals, meet their own objectives and make a positive impact on their mental health and those of others.

Cara-Friend LGBT Youth

• Cara-Friend LGBT Youth (GLYNI) is committed to equipping young people with a voice to promote equality and diversity within Northern Ireland and throughout Europe. We are committed to providing a safe and social space for our members where they can express and explore their individuality and encourage them to  be positive contributors to their own lives and their communities.  In order to achieve this we will encourage our members to become more active in taking ownership of programmes, driving change and making a local impact.

Catalyst

Catalyst is a dynamic and innovative leadership programme primarily targeting young people living in diverse areas of England who have leadership potential waiting to be uncovered. It is delivered free of charge and with optional accreditation.

By December 2020 – the penultimate month of the I Will Campaign – we will have:

• 5,000 graduates actively engaged in their community as a result of Catalyst;
• Helped 500 graduates apply for Near Neighbours Small Grant funding to help advance the common good in their neighbourhood;
• Reached 1 million young people through our youth generated social media content, campaigns and short films.

By 2022, our ultimate goal is to equip 10,000 young people in 24 targeted regions of England with the vision to become leaders in a plural society and the skills and relationships to build it. Reaching this number of young people will create a movement capable of materially impacting levels of social cohesion across the country.

Catch22

• By 2020, we pledge to digitalise social action and make it relevant to the lives of disengaged young people by promoting our social action app to over 100,000 service users. By Nov 2015 we will have promoted our app to 10,000 young people.
• By 2020, we will have taken a data driven approach to evidence what works best to support young people in achieving their goals and employment using social action. By Nov 2015 we will have used sample data from 200 plans and records from our social action app to use as evidence to plan how the services we run can best support young people in achieving their goals and finding employment.
• By 2020, we will work to ensure that all young people, particularly those from less advantaged backgrounds, have access to exciting and meaningful social action opportunities.  By Nov 2015, Catch22 NCS delivery will be known for working with a diverse social mix.

Charity Retail Association

Charity Retail Association pledge to:

• Share the six quality principles of great youth social action provision with our members to help ensure that every young person volunteering with our members has a great experience as they can
• Celebrate young people who are taking a lead across our membership, showcasing the positive impact that young people have on our work, primarily through our Young Volunteer of the Year award
• Encourage our members to nominate young people as #iwill ambassadors to represent the work they’ve done
• Act as an ambassador for the #iwill campaign, encouraging our members to be involved in the campaign and to help break down the barriers and myths surrounding engaging young people in volunteering opportunities
• Help to build the research to showcase the current numbers of young people involved in charity retail, and work to grow, track and measure the impact of this over the lifespan of the campaign and beyond
• Undertake events, eg Style Me in Seconds, which can encourage and motivate young people to be involved in the charity retail sector.

Children’s Rights Unit

• Engage with Children and Young people, listen to their voices and ensure they are aware of their rights.
• Have a vision that all young people are engaged in social action.
• Support young people and organisations in volunteering and young person engagement.
• Try to make Children’s Rights a reality for all children no matter what their background is.

CHIPS

CHIPS pledge to offer a wider range of volunteering opportunities, and to double our number of volunteers within one year.

Clarity CIC

• We will raise the advantages of involving young people, with all the non-profit organisations we work with.
• We will promote the resources, research and good practice available through the iwill campaign to non-profit organisations through our work and our newsletter, blog and social media presence
• We will promote examples of organisations who are providing really good social action opportunities for young people
• We will talk to the young people we know, about how they can get involved in social action, and what they will get out of it

CLCGB – Church Lads’ and Church Girls’ Brigade

• Increase the profile of social action within the current programs, to include the six quality principles in our work with young people.
• Increase our current provision by providing an additional 1000 places ensuring all young people have the opportunity to gain knowledge and skills for today’s society.

Clean For The Queen

pledge:

#iwill spread the word via our communication channels about the double benefit of youth social action (volunteering, campaigning, and fundraising)

#iwill encourage our partner organisations, and those taking part, to create opportunities for young people to get involved in the Clean for the Queen campaign.

#iwill encourage our partner organisations to make their own pledge to the #iwill campaign for youth social action

Clooney Community Centre, NI

Clooney Community Centre is a youth and community organisation in the heart of Londonderry’s Waterside providing high quality support and services to all members of the community.  The youth centre is a vibrant hub of activity providing after school and evening programmes to cater for all age groups.  Social action, community engagement and civic participation are at the heart of what we do with the aim of ensuring that all members play their part in making their community a good place to live.  We will support the #iwill campaign by our pledge:

• We will encourage young people to become involved in social action, building on the success of previous initiatives, in order to increase involvement both as groups and as individuals
• We will increase awareness of the skills gained through involvement in volunteering and social action
• We will recognise our young people’s commitment through the Millennium Volunteers programme and in house recognition events.

Club Doncaster Foundation

• Work with young people to develop a plan to achieve an increase in youth social action in local communities, supporting young people to organise projects, and monitoring our progress.
• Make it easier for all young people to find opportunities to take part in local social action and removing barriers to participating.
• Work with our partners – businesses, voluntary and community groups, schools, colleges and others to promote quality social action for all young people and to enable more high quality social action opportunities.
• Be creative, ambitious and innovative in our approach and challenge how we work so that young people are actively involved in our organisation and the community.

Co-operation Ireland

Co-operation Ireland will continue to develop young people, from a diverse range of backgrounds, so that they have an opportunity to meet, learn about the traditions and cultures of other young people living on the island of Ireland in order to create a more peaceful respectful stable society. Through its commitment to ‘develop’ Co-operation Ireland will:

• embrace new opportunities to create, enhance and support youth volunteering
• continue to lead the NI NCS Consortium as it embeds youth social action within its programme
• promote opportunities through schools and community programmes in order to encourage active citizenship
• continue to embed diversity and community relations throughout its programmes to enhance the opportunity for young people to benefit from all volunteering opportunities.

Community Development Foundation

• Identify relevant resources that  promote youth social action and share them on our Just Act website
• Network young people who are  involved in community activity via the Just Act website and online forum
• Share positive stories about youth involvement in community action on both our Just Act website but also our CDF website and more widely with sector partners and government
• Promote the #iwill campaign and youth social action with news stories and comms through our social media and comms channels

Debate Mate

• Debate Mate pledges to engage 5000 young people to take part in debating and support other pupils involved.

Devon Voluntary Action (DeVa)

• Support our members to grow the number of young people involved in social action throughout Devon, opening up meaningful, high quality experiences.
• Celebrate young people who are taking a lead in developing youth social action and ensure young people have a voice in decision making.
• Encourage our partners to nominate young people as  #iwill ambassadors to represent the work they’ve done through our organisation.
• Act as an ambassador for the campaign, encouraging our partners and support network to be part of the #iwill campaign.

Diana Award

• Empower young people involved in social action, to achieve their full potential, through personal and skills development to enable them progress further.
• Create more opportunities for volunteers, channeling their energies into specific youth-led programmes that benefit the wider society, such as our peer led Antibullying Ambassadors and Peer Mentoring Programmes
• Make volunteering cool and acceptable by highlighting and celebrating to the media positive young role models

Elevation Networks

Elevation Networks will embed social action as a habit for our Youth Services users. We will do this through:

• The delivery of our existing National Citizen Service (NCS) programmes.
• Creating social action opportunities for our NCS Graduates (post-programme).
• Encouraging our NCS Graduates to make #iwill pledges using our social media channels.
• Creating a platform for partnerships to emerge that initiate social action opportunities for young people.
• Developing new partnerships that create sponsorship and social action opportunities for young people.
• Creating sponsorship opportunities for our existing partners to contribute to the social action projects undertaken by young people.
• Being creative, ambitious and innovative in our approach to support social action opportunities.
• Helping our university student members to set up sustainable social action projects through our annual leadership programme.
• Working with our partners – businesses, voluntary and community groups, schools, colleges and others to promote quality social action for all young people and to enable more high quality social action opportunities.

Emmaus South Wales

• We will provide volunteering opportunities in our seven charity shops, allowing young people to gain valuable retail and customer service skills.
• We will provide opportunities and resources that enable young people to learn about local social issues, including homelessness and poverty.

These opportunities fit in to the curriculum of the Welsh Baccalaureate and Duke of Edinburgh qualifications.
Solidarity Opportunities:

• We will help and support young people through new and continued solidarity projects across South Wales.
• We will communicate with local schools and youth organisations and provide information of how our charity tackles the homelessness issue and how they can help our cause.

Endeavour

Endeavour pledges to:

• Embed social action in all of our projects so that our young people experience the benefit of giving something back
• Enable our young people to lead, shape and own the social action projects they undertake
• Ensure that our young people reflect upon their social action contributions, draw upon lessons learned and share for the benefit of future activity
• Ensure that our social action projects have value and meaning for those undertaking the action and those that are recipients
• Enable social action projects undertaken to be challenging, stretching and enjoyable for the young people undertaking them
• Encourage our young people to make social action projects sustainable by linking them to appropriate community support

Engage Communities CIC

• Communicate the value of youth social action to all young people that come and do work experience with us
• Embed social action into our work experience opportunities
• Value youth social action in our recruitment process
• Promote the value of youth social action with our employees and wider networks

Envision

• By 2020 we will have recruited, trained and supported a further 4,000 business and community volunteers to support Envision groups in schools and colleges.
• With their support, over the next six years, at least 15,000 young people will graduate from our social leadership programmes delivered in an expanding network of schools and colleges.

Ethnic Youth Support Team

• Ethnic Youth Support Team will step up our efforts working with young ethnic minority people across Wales to engage 1000 young people in volunteering, active citizenship and positive social Action by 2020

Find a Future

At Find a Future we recognise the valuable contribution that young people can make in enhancing all we do and pledge to offer them a range of meaningful volunteer and social action activities across our events and activities.

Find a Future will publicly affirm the benefits of engaging with young people through youth volunteer and social action programmes by:

• Ensuring that we create high quality volunteer and social action opportunities through our volunteer and employability programmes at our national event and with local and national partners.
• Working with Step Up to Serve and partners to promote social action and volunteer opportunities to all of our volunteers at our national show. Our 500 volunteers and all 75,000 young visitors will have the opportunity to access this information through our Sign Up Saturday feature and by inviting 2 #1will ambassadors to speak to all the young people.
• Highlighting ways that students can get involved through Find a Future website and social media channels as well as by providing guidance and information to our team leaders and partners at the show.
• Working with the Step up To Serve team to ensure that our young people are recognised and celebrated for their contribution to social action and volunteering.
• Working with step up to Serve to ensuring that we stay informed with developments and opportunities in volunteering for young people.
• Empowering, training & supporting young people volunteering with us to ensure they engage in meaningful youth social action opportunities.
• Lending a voice to the social action agenda by nominating young people as #iwill ambassadors as appropriate and sharing stories of great volunteer and youth social action.
• Working with our partners to showcase the benefits of supporting youth social action and volunteering to encourage them to be involved and support the development and recognition of youth social action.
• Actively encouraging Find a Futures’ colleagues to give their time and skills to volunteer by making it easy and accessible.

Flintshire & Wrexham Watch Association

• Flintshire & Wrexham Online Watch Link Association (OWL Eastern Policing Command) pledge to provide as many high quality youth social action opportunities, for young people to continue their social action journey.

Flying Futures CIC

• To make social action part of life for as many 10 to 20 year olds as possible by the year 2020.
• To integrate youth social action into our commitment, values and ethos, ensuring we create high quality youth social action experiences.
• To continue to deliver NCS, building the social action journey for young people we work with.
• To communicate about the campaign to our network and affirm the importance of youth social action, acting as an ambassador for our youth social action work.

Football For Peace

• Work with young people around the UK, helping promote cohesion and social inclusion in towns and cities, developing a plan to create workshops and self-sustainable projects providing the platform for the youth to take full initiative.
• The young people involved will become Football for Peace ‘Youth Ambassadors’ and given the responsibility to uphold social inclusion by breaking down barriers within their community, involving youth from all other backgrounds and walks of life.
• Work in partnership with Cities, councils and schools to help promote and deliver our Youth ambassador and Peace tournaments within communities.
• Demonstrate the impact of the ‘Youth Ambassadors’ programme and advocating its value through senior representatives.

Foster Care Associates, NI

Foster Care Associates pledges to:

• Encourage their young people to become involved in volunteering either within FAC internal roles, with their foster families, within School or independently within their local communities.
• Encourage their young volunteers to receive recognition through the Millennium Volunteers programme
• Support their young volunteers to recognise the skills that they have gained and developed through their volunteering and encouraging them to articulate these within personal statements and job applications

Friends for Leisure

• We pledge to inspire young people to volunteer at Friends for Leisure and become socially committed members of their society by befriending and socialising with disabled young people.

Future Foundations

• Pledge to support 10,000 young people to step up to serve by 2024.

Generation Change

• We will partner with Step Up To Serve to help develop quality standards across youth social action provision that will help stakeholders. understand the impact of social action on young people and society.
• We will continue to build the Generation Change social action map, providing a national picture of structured social action opportunities available to young people.
• We will continue to be an independent and collective voice for the youth social action sector, helping to foster greater collaboration between provision and provide more opportunities to create a social action journey for young people.

Girlguiding

• Engage more volunteers to enable more girls to join.
• Engage more girls in social action in their local community through the guiding programme.
• Engage more girls as advocates for change.
• Engage over 50,000 more girls aged 10 to 20 as a powerful force for good in their communities by 2020.

Girlguiding North West England

Girlguiding North West England has over 68,000 members in our Region, across 17 guiding Counties. We enable our members to discover and fulfil their potential through an exciting range of enjoyable activities and events, so they can make a positive contribution to their community and make a difference to the world. We aim to support both our younger members and adult volunteers to go the extra mile, truly putting girls in the lead.

We pledge to:

• Engage more volunteers to enable more girls to join.
• Engage more girls aged 10 to 20 as a powerful force for good in their communities.
• Participate in different social action projects to help make a real difference.

Girlguiding Scotland

• Engage up to 15,000 new girls and young women each year to 2020 as a powerful force for good in their communities.
• Engage at least 1,200 new adult volunteers each year to 2020 to enable more girls to join.
• Participate in 9,000 social actions each year to 2020 (Scottish Guiding Units).

Global Action Plan

• Ensure that young people taking part in Global Action Plan programmes know that they’re taking part in youth social action, ensuring that they can recognise the double benefit.
• Embed the six quality principles of youth social action provision into our programmes, ensuring that every young person has a great experience.
• Celebrate young people who are taking a lead in developing youth social action and ensure young people have a voice in decision making and shaping GAP’s ongoing schools and youth programmes.
• Nominate young people as  #iwill ambassadors to represent the work they have done through Global Action Plan.
• Grow the Global Action Plan programmes to engage a further 15,000 schools by 2020. Reaching a further 2 million young people.
• Develop our programme pilot with The Scout Association and Girlguiding to offer up social action programmes to 2,000 young people outside of school.

Globalteer

Globalteer pledges to actively encourage young people aged between 15 and 20 to participate in social action, specifically international volunteering and cultural exchange by

• Forging closer relationships with British universities
• Instigating new relationships with British schools
• Seeking financial support from corporate and institutional partners in order to make international volunteering accessible to a broader youth demographic

Good 2 Give

• Develop it’s Young Ambassador Programme to encourage young people aged 5 to 25 to volunteer and play their part in enhancing the work the organisation. Supporting up to 20 Young Ambassadors in each 18 month programme.
• Organise a programme of practical workshops and activities to involve our Young Ambassadors in supporting the organisation and growing their engagement throughout the programme.

Greater Manchester Youth Network

• GMYN pledges that social action will continue to be embedded in all of our future programmes and this will be promoted throughout the charity, our networks and our partners.
• We pledge that we will continue to ensure social action is seen as a route into employment/self-employment for all young people by showing the true value it can bring to employers and breaking down any barriers for change!
• We will expand on our successful projects across other areas of Greater Manchester and beyond to encourage and support more vulnerable young people (including young people in care/care leavers, young people with disabilities, and homeless young people etc) to take part in transformative social action activities.

Groundwork

Groundwork pledges to:

• Support 10,000 young people to learn and achieve by 2020
• Inspire 10,000 young people to engage with digital campaigns promoting positive, youth-led environmental social action by 2018
• Provide 1,000 local community groups with training, advice and information to enable them to involve young people more effectively in their decision-making by 2018
• Encourage 100 young people to commit to acting as ‘young Groundwork Ambassadors’, championing work to involve young people in improving green spaces through advocacy and fundraising by 2018

Guide Dogs

• Develop a range of meaningful activities for young people to engage in that will contribute to us being able to enable more people living with sight loss to enjoy the same independence as everyone else.
• Develop a Youth Engagement Strategy, outlining how and where young people can be engaged throughout the organisation.
• Create new, exciting opportunities for young people to engage in social action.
• Support our teams to recognise the value of engaging with young volunteers in the work they do.
• To upskill our volunteer managers around attracting and retaining young volunteers.
• Specifically target young people through our recruitment and advertising.
• Strive to equip young people with the right skills and knowledge to undertake social action in their communities, to be of benefit to people living with sight loss.
• Reward and recognise the contribution of young people in the work of Guide Dogs and Blind Children UK, in ways they want to be rewarded and recognised.

Guide Dogs (Northern Ireland)

Recognising the valuable contribution that young people can make, we pledge to develop a range of meaningful volunteering activities for young people to engage in that will enable more people living with sight loss to enjoy the same independence as everyone else. We undertake to equip these young people with the skills, training and resources they need to carry these activities out

High Life Highland

High Life Highland (HLH) is a charity which aims to make the Highlands a better place to live, work and visit by developing and promoting opportunities in culture, learning, sport, leisure, health and wellbeing.

Youth Work and Adult Learning make up the HLH Learning for Life team which is rooted in partnership and collaboration with communities. It is about learning and achieving together. The HLH Learning for Life team provides and supports informal, life-long and life-wide learning opportunities, in our communities, which contribute to ensuring that Highland is a great place to live and work for all.

Learning for Life is about promoting and celebrating the value of all forms of learning. Learning for Life supports individuals and groups in communities to be successful learners, confident individuals, responsible citizens and effective contributors.

Learning for life also actively prioritises resources so that community learning opportunities are targeted towards improving the life chances of individuals and communities at greater risk of poorer outcomes of health and wellbeing, education and employment.

• High Life Highland Learning for Life team pledges to support more young people to access quality social action opportunities through their local and regional participation structures.

Holocaust Memorial Day Trust

27 January, Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) is a chance for everyone to remember the millions murdered in the Holocaust, under Nazi Persecution and in the genocides that have happened since: in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and the ongoing Genocide in Darfur. On HMD thousands of people come together to honour the survivors of these atrocities and to use the lessons of their experience to challenge hatred and discrimination today.

Young people are central to ensuring these important messages reach future generations. The HMD Youth Champion Programme empowers young people to take action for Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) through organising their own HMD events, raising awareness of HMD, and working to combat hatred and prejudice within their communities. Through our Holocaust Memorial Day Youth Champions programme we will:

• Enable young people to be the driving forcebehind Holocaust Memorial Day, raising awareness of the Holocaust, genocide and the dangers of hatred within communities today
• Produce resourcesto engage and inspire young people to recognise the relevance of Holocaust Memorial Day and take action to promote tolerance
• Supportand train young people in campaigning, leadership, events and communications skills enabling them to hold meaningful awareness raising activities and events
• Create a networkof likeminded young people to strengthen the movement of young people learning from the past to create a safer future
• Support intergenerational projects to enable young people to learn from the powerful stories of genocide survivors
• Provide ongoing developmentopportunities for young people

Inspiring Scotland

InterAct

• InterAct is committed to involving young people in Essex in social action, through which they can strengthen their local communities, by supporting the inclusion, participation and empowerment of disadvantaged people, particularly those with special educational needs and disabilities, and those who experience barriers through challenging emotional/mental health issues and social difficulties.  InterAct will do this by:
• Offering a range of social action and volunteering opportunities through which young people will enrich their communities and develop practical skills and experiences to enable more successful progression into adult life
• Providing training, support and supervision for young people’s involvement in social action, to equip them with the necessary skills and awareness of the needs of others
• Ensuring young people experience mutual support, encouragement, fun and friendship
• Facilitating young people’s participation in the planning, design, delivery and evaluation of InterAct’s programmes

In 2016 and 2017, InterAct will:

• Continue to recruit, train, deploy and support young people as volunteers to provide community-based mentoring and befriending support for young people with learning disabilities and difficulties, or other disadvantages
• Broaden the range of practical social action opportunities for young people  in Essex available through InterAct, and in partnership with others, including NCS participants
• Provide training in learning disability awareness, Mental Health First Aid, mentoring skills and safeguarding awareness as appropriate to young people’s involvement in social action/volunteering
• Facilitate young people’s participation groups in 3 local areas in Essex to ensure that young people’s views and aspirations shape the continuing development of InterAct’s programmes and services

IPYG

As an organisation delivering a range of youth social action projects, our ultimate goal is to represent the voices of young people and provide a platform for them to effectively participate on matters affecting our society. IPYG believes that in order to progress real solutions for peace and conflict resolution, every section of the society must participate and as young people carry the voices of the future, they should be included in building the solutions.

IPYG pledge:

• We pledge to encourage the youth to harness their creativity and energy to think outside the box and come up peace-building solutions hereby developing their life skills and character.
• We pledge to support the #iwill campaign by inviting its ambassadors to collaborate with international policy makers, lawyers and UN officials as well as other youth organisations to achieve the common goal of peace.
• We pledge to gather and mobilise young people to raise awareness and support solutions to end global conflict. Our vision is unity amongst young people that transcends boundaries, race and religion, which exemplifies the double benefit of youth social action.
• We pledge to encourage and support young people in developing peace projects in their local communities.

Jewish Lads’ and Girls’ Brigade

• The JLGB (Jewish Lads’ & Girls’ Brigade) will step up and help all young people to have every opportunity to serve others by launching eVOLve – a collaborative Jewish community initiative for youth volunteering, social action and accreditation, through which we will create a step-change in the impact young people make in society.
• Streamlining volunteering services, awards and qualifications through the creation of a faith sensitive online volunteering profile and matching system.
• Supporting charities to be more youth-friendly, developing with them age-appropriate and progressive opportunities for social action.
• Actively increasing youth participation in volunteering, accreditation and youth-led social action.
• Helping schools to prioritise social action and volunteering, by supporting teachers with practical resources and management tools.
• Encouraging more adult volunteer leaders to step up and help train, coach and mentor young people and support their social action journey.

Kids Run Free

• Encourage Kids Run Free events across the UK to engage young people in volunteering roles.
• Work with the #iwill campaign to promote the positive role young people can play in voluntary sector organisations and the benefits it can bring to the individual and to communities.

KPC Youth

KPC will engage with over 400 young people per year, giving them better opportunities in life and for their futures by providing open access facilities, and a safe and positive environment

Leap Confronting Conflict

Leap Confronting Conflict believes in the power of young people to lead positive change in their communities through learning how to manage conflict in their own lives and leading each other.  We pledge to support the #iwill campaign by:

• Supporting young people to be represented at all levels throughout Leap Confronting Conflict, leading our work as trainers, staff, volunteers and Trustees.
• Ensuring that all of our opportunities for young people to play their part – from Trustees through to one-off volunteer opportunities – are inclusive and open to ALL young people, no matter what their background.
• Embedding the 6 quality principles of youth social action through our opportunities for young people

LGBT Youth Scotland

LGBT Youth Scotland is the largest youth and community-based organisation for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people in Scotland. The charity’s mission is to: empower lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender young people and the wider LGBT community so that they are embraced as full members of the Scottish family at home, school and in every community. We pledge to:

• Develop and provide opportunities for LGBT young people to engage in meaningful social action with a goal of 50% of our services users engaging in social action by 2020.
• Celebrate LGBT young peoples achievements through accreditation systems and highlight their contribution to social action through social media platforms; recognising their journey and progression at all levels.
• Build the capacity of staff and volunteers to champion social action and youth participation approaches within youth groups and services; supporting them to identify and create opportunities for young people.

London Youth

London Youth will:

1. By 2020, engage over 1,500 young people from over 100 youth organisations across London in social action and leadership programmes, making efforts to reach out and involve reluctant young people and those who might not otherwise get involved in youth social action
2. Provide a triple-benefit through participation in our social action programmes: develop the skills of young people, create more cohesive communities and equipping grassroots youth organisations to increase capacity and stability
3. Strengthen and empower the collective voice of young Londoners to create positive change across the capital, through our youth board Dare London, the use of peer researchers and the encouragement of effective youth participation throughout our membership
4. Facilitate a network of good practice and support for organisations looking to develop more inclusive social action and projects run by disabled and non-disabled young people together and share stories of diverse groups of young people making a difference

Love Parks

Love Parks pledges to:

• Provide quantitative research on social action by young people (10-20) in parks and green spaces across England. We will do this by creating a steering group for young people to be part of in order for them to provide feedback, advice and guidance on ways to develop Love Parks for future generations.
• We will work closely with primary schools through the Keep Britain Tidy Eco-Schools programme , to further engage children in volunteering in parks and green spaces and support them to become positive role models for their peers.
• Love Parks will work with colleges and universities to engage young people (16-20) in volunteering opportunities within parks and green spaces. Love parks will support young people volunteering, by working with friends’ groups and area forums to provide opportunities for them to become members.
• We will create and promote opportunities to work with Love Parks directly through a series of volunteering roles between March 2015 – March 2016. We will actively promote and recruit park champions from the community with emphasis on encouraging young people to sign up.

Medway Youth Trust

• A working group will be developed alongside the Medway Youth Trust (MYT) Youth Forum to ensure that young people take an active lead in identifying and encouraging potential social action opportunities.
• New Social Action Pioneer roles will be created that provide an opportunity for young people to bring about change in the communities that they work and live in through championing the double benefit of social action. These roles will also create mechanisms to ensure critical reflection is thoroughly embedded in the social action journey and measured against the six principles of social action.
• MYT to invite local schools (primary and secondary) to take part in a pilot that helps to embed social action into the curriculum.
• To support 200 young people during 2015 to participate in bringing about changes they would like through social action.
• All staff are given the opportunity to support on one social action project per year and are actively encouraged to suggest new opportunities.
• Actively market the double benefit to other local employers to utilise their corporate volunteering in supporting social action.
• Work in partnership with Medway Voluntary Action to provide more structured and progressive opportunities for the local community to have an impact on the future.
• To encourage small scale social action activities within harder to reach groups and communities.
• To extend our social action participation and activity beyond our immediate vicinity by giving local young people the opportunity to design and carry out international social action projects in a developing country.

Mentor

Mentor believes in the power of young people to achieve positive outcomes in their community through social action.  As part of the #iwill campaign, we pledge to:

• Work with Step Up To Serve to promote the positive role young people can play and the benefits it can bring to the individual and to communities
• Engage young people in social action wherever appropriate in our programmes, including through our Youth Insight Team
• Consider the role young people might play in Mentor’s policy development
• Celebrate young volunteers within Mentor and alert them to the opportunity to become #iwill ambassadors when the campaign is recruiting

Momentum (Norfolk)

• Promote the Norfolk Youth Award, which recognises young peopleâ•˙s volunteering and encourages them to reflect on the benefits of volunteering
• Share examples of best practice to our member groups to encourage more youth participation
• Tell our members about #IWill and encourage them and the young people they work with to add their own pledges

National Citizen Service (NCS)

• NCS will celebrate the contribution of one million graduates of National Citizen Service by 2020.

National Federation Of Young Farmers’ Clubs

• Grow and develop our social action programmes for young people we work with, ensuring they’re able to access a range of opportunities, regardless of their location.
• Provide our young people with the skills, confidence and support network to make a difference in their local communities.
• Ensure that young people taking part in our programmes know that they’re taking part in youth social action to ensure they can recognise the double benefit.
• Embed the six quality principles of youth social action provision into our programme, ensuring that every young person has a great experience.
• Celebrate and recognise the achievements of the young people involved in taking a lead in developing youth social action and ensure young people have a voice in decision making.
• Nominate young people as  #iwill ambassadors to represent the work they’ve done through our organisation .
• Act as an ambassador for the campaign, encouraging our partners and support network to be part of the #iwill campaign.
• Share the learning we’ve developed through our National Youth Social Action Fund project, to support other organisations to create opportunities for young people in rural areas.

National Fire Cadets UK

National Trust

• National Trust will increase the number of family volunteering opportunities in the National Trust, finding ways for 1000 young people to volunteer their time alongside parents, grandparents and other family members.
• By also increasing to 200 (by 2020) the number of three to six month voluntary internships for young people, helping support them to develop skills for employment.

National Youth Agency (NYA)

• Highlight outstanding examples of young people led community projects on our website and on other publicity materials

• Encourage youth organisations to empower young people to lead positive change through our participation framework Hear by Right, including placing  young people’s volunteering at the heart of their work.

• Shine a light on disadvantaged young people, engaging and supporting them in community based positive change to gain a wider recognition of the value social action can bring to this group, as well as an understanding of the barriers they may face.

• Support thousands of young people to get involved in social action in their communities through O2 Think Big, where we are helping focus on young people from disadvantaged backgrounds, providing youth work and mentoring help.

• Help thousands of young people deliver social action projects in their neighbourhoods as a lead partner in the NCS programme in the North East.

NAVCA

• NAVCA members are at the heart of brokering volunteering relationships with young people.
• NAVCA will act as an ambassador for the #Iwill campaign, spreading the word on behalf of our members about youth social action and its benefits to both young people and our communities.
• We will encourage our members to build on their existing good practice and to help their member organisations positively support young people wanting to volunteer; and to see young people as a valuable pool of voluntary support.